Can this first victory be a trigger for this group?
"What is certain is that the players have just validated the work they have been doing since the start. The thing to note is that we have a group that works really well. It was even more frustrating that they didn't get the rewards they had earned during the week. So, tonight, they just paid themselves back. "
Beyond victory, what are the motives of satisfaction?
"First of all, victory is not bad! Afterwards, one of the motives of satisfaction is this ability, in a match with knives pulled, between two clubs in an unfortunate position... In retrospect it is easy to say, but, we had no doubt on this ability to keep the engagement. It's a real satisfaction. We were able to take full responsibility for ourselves. There is satisfaction on physical engagement. There is satisfaction with the desire not to close the game, when we could have retracted a little bit because of what was at stake. I am probably not objective, because I am inside and I don't know what it has given me from the outside, but there is a willingness to be faithful to what we want to put in place. "
There was also the scrum, especially the one in the 70th minute of the match....
"Once again, work virtue, at one time or another, pays off. I am lucky for a first experience at this level. I have boys, whatever their experience, whatever the level at which they have played, who demonstrate an enormous quality of work and investment, and beyond that, this ability to pull up players, with a little less experience. And this is a real opportunity for me. And, on the other hand, they support me! It's a double opportunity! "
The FCG must relearn how to live with a melee. But this does not yet seem to be the case.
"I could answer, yeah, yeah, great, we're going to improve, except we're only on the fifth round. But that little thing in our sport systematically needs to be questioned. As a result, the truth of today is not the truth of tomorrow. We're going to continue to work and be very demanding, to learn how to better exploit the balloons around us. "
Auteur : FCG Rugby